Auditing and Monitoring

Let's give our organization monitoring skills a boost. Security is Salesforce's number one concern, and we, as administrators, are the security marshals of our organization. In the previous chapter, we saw how to set up secure access to our records using object permissions and the Salesforce sharing model.

In this chapter, we'll have a look at how you can monitor and audit your organization to ensure that everything is working properly and how you can proactively address any issue with your organization. There are different metrics that we can use to keep an eye on our daily administrator work. We'll have a look at some of them to ensure that your implementation is working correctly.

In this chapter, we'll learn about the following topics:

• How to delegate some of your administrative tasks—as a sheriff, you need a deputy
• How to monitor login access—have a look at who is accessing our organization
• How to monitor key metrics of your organization's usage, or how customization lies on your organization's limits
• How to enable debug logs for point-and-click customizations for effective debugging
• How to check the overall security status of your organization
• How to actively monitor all kinds of user events (such as logins, report executions, and Visualforce loading, to name a few) with event monitoring